from health care around the world. a preview of a new gps special that prematures tonight at 8:00 p.m. but, first, here s my take. when i was in college in the early 1980s as part of a student organization, i invited ronald reagan s defense secretary casper weinberger to give a speech on campus y where yous american colleges were hotbeds of opposition to the reagan administration, especially to defense policies. sure enough, as soon as weinberger began to speech, a group of students stood up and began to heckle. one after another they rose and chanted a single line. deterence is a lie. i was reminded of that turbulent meeting because i have been listening to these debates over iran s nuclear ambitions. it highlights a strange role reversal in today s foreign policy discourse. it used to be left searching instead for options like the nuclear freeze, and it used to be people on the right who would patiently explain the practical virtues of deterrented. the conservative thinker
jim bitterman. let s cross the pond and go over to tika shubert, who is at downing street. what about the u.k.? are they in it for the long haul? many people are concerned that we may be entering a stalemate situation, kind of like iraq in the 1990s where a no fly zone lasted for something like eight years. well, certainly he seems to be prime minister cameron seems to be getting the broad political support to do so. he has a busy schedule today. he is actually chairing a national security council meeting at the moment. we saw a number of cabinet members arriving, including finance head george ozborne and foreign minister william haag went in, and then later on in the house of commons this afternoon there will be a debate, a discussion about what s happening in libya and ultimately a vote, but as i pointed out, at the moment there does seem to be broad political support. the three major parties have all seemed to back up cameron s